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… both Hal Blaine and Charles Nelson Reilly survived the horrible Hartford circus fire of 1944.
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… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
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JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
Lululemon is also quite good. The ones I thought of were an impatience of Karens or a scolding of Karens. But when the Boss told me that people were calling them a view of Karens, yeah, that seemed definitive to me.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 2:08pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
Lululemon is also quite good. The ones I thought of were an impatience of Karens or a scolding of Karens. But when the Boss told me that people were calling them a view of Karens, yeah, that seemed definitive to me.
Based on the behavior/internet of that woman in Central Park a few weeks ago "a Murder" is perhaps more appropriate.

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revbob wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 2:51pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 2:08pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
Lululemon is also quite good. The ones I thought of were an impatience of Karens or a scolding of Karens. But when the Boss told me that people were calling them a view of Karens, yeah, that seemed definitive to me.
Based on the behavior/internet of that woman in Central Park a few weeks ago "a Murder" is perhaps more appropriate.
Way to get all political, Cronkite!
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JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
I like a Lululemon of Karen’s 😂
I don’t get The View :huh:

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101Walterton wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 4:17pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
I like a Lululemon of Karen’s 😂
I don’t get The View :huh:
I really think Murder is far more appropriate. These people are dangerous.

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revbob wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 4:24pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 4:17pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
I like a Lululemon of Karen’s 😂
I don’t get The View :huh:
I really think Murder is far more appropriate. These people are dangerous.
An orderly queue of Karens.

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101Walterton wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 4:30pm
revbob wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 4:24pm
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 4:17pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 1:57pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jun 2020, 9:09am
… a group of Karens (akin to a murder of crows) is a view (i.e., The View).
That's PERFERCT. A friend of mine and I were trying to come up with a name for a group of Karens just the other day. I had suggested A Lululemon of Karens, but yours is better.
I like a Lululemon of Karen’s 😂
I don’t get The View :huh:
I really think Murder is far more appropriate. These people are dangerous.
An orderly queue of Karens.
Im in one of my extremely rare serious moments.

This lady was threatening him with calling the police but not because she was in danger.

Murder is the proper term and I will use it.

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… Chevy Chase has been married three times. Given what a dick he is, that seems surprisingly low. More surprising yet, the current marriage began in 1982.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Jul 2020, 9:49am
… Chevy Chase has been married three times. Given what a dick he is, that seems surprisingly low. More surprising yet, the current marriage began in 1982.
Especially since he continued to be popular through the mid-late 80's. Men are more prone to cheating on career peaks/upswings vs. downswings (this is just my assumption, not based on any facts).
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
27 Jul 2020, 10:15am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
27 Jul 2020, 9:49am
… Chevy Chase has been married three times. Given what a dick he is, that seems surprisingly low. More surprising yet, the current marriage began in 1982.
Especially since he continued to be popular through the mid-late 80's. Men are more prone to cheating on career peaks/upswings vs. downswings (this is just my assumption, not based on any facts).
Maybe, but Chevy just seems like a full-on dick all the time. Regardless of cheating, he seems like a serious pain in the ass to be around.
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… Bob Barker is a member of the Sioux nation and was raised on a reservation in South Dakota during the Great Depression.
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… the nature of the famous Rosie the Riveter illustration is much different than I understood it to be. The original RtR by Norman Rockwell was this:
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The one that we all know, of course, is this:
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It was adapted by Westinghouse during the war and the "we" refers to … Westinghouse, the company. Not workers or women. It was repurposed by feminists decades later.
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